Helsinki in late May: five days of shows, ateliers, studios and one awards night, where a young generation of Finnish designers proved that craftsmanship and innovation can move in the same direction. COEVAL was there to see it.
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The Silence of the Mole, new film by Jakub Jansa at 61st Venice Biennale
‘The Silence of the Mole’ reimagines a folkloric icon as a Marxist underdog. The film investigates the Kafkaesque machinery of national representation at the Biennale, where muted instruments signal a refusal to serve cultural diplomacy and statecraft.
'Strange Rules' Mat Dryhurst and Holly Herndon at Palazzo Diedo Venice
Mat Dryhurst makes software the way others make manifestos. Curated alongside Holly Herndon, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Adriana Rispoli, his Attention Guild installation at Palazzo Diedo is the clearest version yet of what he calls protocol art: a parliament of humans and agents, and a gift economy that runs.
A Place in the Sun by Genti Korini at the Albanian Pavilion's Biennale
Genti Korini resurrects early 20th-century avant-garde research to critique the exoticization of Albania. By staging an archival Russian parody, he exposes the failure of language to capture the other.
SEAWORLD VENICE by Florentina Holzinger
What remains after provocation? Reading SEAWORLD VENICE by Florentina Holzinger.
Rewire Festival: The Hague's Beautiful Experiment in Sonic Chaos
Four days of pure experimentation, local heroes and international heavyweights sharing the same city. Blawan live, Batu, Torus, Aaron Dilloway's noise rituals, Caterina Barbieri's modular worlds, Oneohtrix Point Never and Freeka Tet's audiovisual fever dream, KMRU's field recordings turned seismic. This is what adventurous music looks like when it's done right.
'Rebecca' by Benni Bosetto at Hangar Bicocca
Moving beyond the notion of space as a mere shell, Benni Bosetto’s Rebecca functions as an autonomous organism. Through July 2026, the exhibition navigates the porous membranes between intimacy and feminine memory.
Kushtrim Memeti at Bazament Tirana
Kushtrim Memeti turns the Trepça mine into testimony. Minerals, metal, and broken bodies speak where official language stays silent. Resistance surfaces through weight, friction, and refusal.
The Architecture of Travel: Rimowa Opens on Via Pietro Verri
Via Pietro Verri welcomes the new Rimowa flagship. Green marble, dark oak, and German engineering define this sophisticated space dedicated to functional design and timeless travel excellence.
Carhartt WIP and F.C.Real Bristol Launch Debut Capsule
Tokyo label F.C.Real Bristol partners with Carhartt WIP. They deliver performance-driven athletic garments and football memorabilia , available worldwide this April.
'Tide of Returns' at Ocean Space
“Tide of Returns” opens the 2026 season of Ocean Space in the former Church of San Lorenzo in Venice, from late March through October 11. Like the tides themselves, the exhibition carries back what once seemed lost: objects, memories, identities torn from the communities that had given them life.
Cao Fei: ‘Dash’ at Fondazione Prada
Cao Fei turns a rice field into a philosophical question. Drones replace gods. Algorithms rewrite ancient rituals. Milan, April–September 2026. Fondazione Prada.
HELNWEIN mundos invertidos at SOLO Contemporary
Gottfried Helnwein makes you look at what most people prefer to ignore. His first major retrospective in Spain opens now at SOLO Independencia, Madrid.
The New American West
The West was built on a story. This exhibition, running at 10·Corso·Como until April 7, lines up the photographers who believed it, and those who knew better.
Porous Kinship Exhibition at Artopia Gallery
Five artists propose a world where human flesh and geological matter share the same origin. The body stops being a boundary. It becomes a site of radical reciprocity.
EXHIBITION OF S.P.E.E.D - ACG and Mental Athletic
ACG and Mental Athletic turned Spazio Maiocchi into a looped trail. Athletes ran multiple laps across three days, abandoning wilderness for repetition, distance for obsession, in a closed-circuit endurance trial.
5th INTERVENTION by REFERENCE STUDIOS
INTERVENTION V returns to Berlin on February 2nd. Kraftwerk Berlin hosts runway presentations, TED's first fashion salon, and four days of cultural programming across the city.
Solomun live in London
Solomun claimed Alexandra Palace across two sold-out nights, delivering five-hour sets that felt like memorabilia moments. His sound is about introspection, depth, and authenticity stating firmly in real electronic music.
Berlin Fashion Week Fall Winter 2026
At Berlin, designers remembered what innovation means: looking backward to move forward. Upcycled waste, moving bodies, childhood nostalgia. Fashion became ritual again.
An interview with NEXT GEN-Jury Sven Marquardt on PLATTE Berlin
PLATTE Berlin becomes a platform where Sven Marquardt’s jury perspective values material truth, photographic thinking, and designers who speak both to the street and to the gallery.